The War
2007 Documentary, War & Politics, Crime 1 season
TMDB rating 8.2/10 Ended
The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
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Six years in the making, this epic 15-hour film focuses on the stories of citizens from four geographically distributed American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and the tiny farming town of Luverne, Minnesota. The four communities stand in for - and could represent - any town in the United States that went through the war's four devastating years. Individuals from each community take the viewer through their own personal and quite often harrowing journeys into war, painting vivid portraits of how the war dramatically altered their lives and those of their neighbors, as well as the country they helped to save for generations to come.
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TMDB rating 7.8/10
Cast and details
Keith DavidNarrator (voice)
Tom HanksNarrator / Al McIntosh (voice)
Josh LucasNarrator (voice)
Bobby CannavaleNarrator / Babe Ciarlo (voice)
Samuel L. JacksonNarrator (voice)
Eli WallachNarrator (voice)
Robert WahlbergNarrator / James A. Fahey (voice)
Adam ArkinReader (voice)
Carolyn McCormickReader (voice)- Paul FussellSelf
- Quentin AanensonSelf
- Sascha WeinzheimerSelf
- Network
- PBS
- First aired
- Sep 23, 2007
- Latest episode
- Oct 2, 2007
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